Friday February 3, 2012

Wednesday - p90x Shoulders/Arms
I'm gaining a lot of strength and my arms are really defined, but my muscles are gigantic in proportion to the short length they have to fill between joints.  I may start lowering the weights a bit and doing a few more reps.


Thursday - run on the treadmill 3 miles
It was a horrible run.  I quickly needed to fit it in between things and I was hurried and a little stressed.  I jumped off after every song to get a drink of water.  I just wasn't into it.  After reading the most recent Runners World, I'm going to focus more on running at an appropriate heart rate, but for longer.  I'm never going to get my mileage up with a heart rate of 170.  I'm going to have to slow down to probably an 11:00 mile and increase my pace when I can regularly keep my heart rate in the 150's/160's at that pace.  I read many things in this recent issue about not getting hung up on pace, and I totally have - it has become a pride thing.  I used to be able to run faster than a 10:00 mile... I had been running at a 9:40 mile with a 2% incline on the treadmill, but I have not run regularly for over a year and I can't expect myself to be at that pace any more.  If I want to continue running and enjoy it, I need to slow down and keep my heart rate in check.  How many times do I have to excuse my crappy performance by saying: Its just too difficult to sustain a heart rate of 170+ for that long?  I'm smarter than that - I know what I have to do, I just need to get over myself and swallow my pride and slow down. 


Have to decide if I want to do a long, slow run tomorrow or do intervals again.  I want to continue doing intervals every week, but I need to figure out which day I want to do them.


Friday - p90x Back/Legs
I always enjoy this workout.  I'm seeing major strength gains in my pullups.  I did 2 reverse grip chinups without using the chair!  Thats awesome!   And I'm proud of myself!  However, I do need to think about what my goals are with this... I tried on a sleeveless shirt yesterday and I was kind of grossed out by how muscular my arms are... again, the distance between my joints is short and my muscles are big, so my arms don't really look toned and defined, they just look big.  Oh well, not sure what to do about it.


My weight was down to 124.4 this morning.  Loss of 1/2 pound this week.  I was kind of disappointed, but then realized - hey, its still a 1/2 pound!  I'm happy with that.